[Info-vax] COBOL example $MGBLSC

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On Thursday, September 7, 2023 at 10:36:35 AM UTC-4, Brian Schenkenberger wrote:
> I need to tell a customer how to map, assuming this is even possible, a 
> global section into which I write data for them. They only do COBOL. :( 
> Is this possibe? How does one reference the data once mapped in the 
> expanded region? I've tried to make heads or tails of COBOL but I get 
> totally lost in the PICs. 
> 
> If only somebody would do what Jim Duff did for calling system services 
> with C but using COBOL. So very few examples exist. 
> 
> — VAXman (still on the outside trying to look into VMS x86)
There was a programming VMS using Cobol class many years ago that had examples of these routines and how to use them. I should have a hardcopy around.  Check the net for PDFs, they may exist.

Dan